Eritrea – trends in child mortality

Equity and child survival

• Are rapid improvements in child survival only possible at the cost of increasing inequity?

• The concept of “low hanging fruit”• Unless equity considerations are considered

when a new intervention is introduced, it will lead to increasing inequity so long as coverage is less than 100%

Mortality in highland PNG by access to care

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urban

periurban

rural

rural

IMR

pneumoniaMR

distance

Asaro30km

Lowa13km6km

1km

Data courtesyD. Lehmann

Families and their possessions

Menzel P. Material World: A Global Family Portrait. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Ethiopia

Mali

South Africa

Slide courtesy Cesar Vitoria

ALBERTO MINUJIN, ENRIQUE DELAMONICAEQUALITY MATTERS FOR A WORLD FIT FOR CHILDRENLESSONS FROM THE 1990s© United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, 2003